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« on: August 26, 2019, 08:59:14 PM »
Jason, I thoroughly enjoyed your memories of your early days at the WW&F. I didn't get there that often, but I seem to remember one time back before the turn of the century meeting you at the WW&F during the time I was learning a lot about the 2 footers. I think you had ridden your bicycle to the WW&F that day and you were primarily working on track at this time and you said your goal was to have track to the same standards as Harlan White had on the Sandy River. I must have just finished reading one of Jones's Sandy River books as I knew of Harlan White's work. I remember thinking that if this young lad was that familiar and interested in the history of the 2-footers then there is a good future up here. Since then I remember talking with other younger members such as Joe Fox and more recently Bryce Weeks, Dan Malkowski and James Noblini to name a few - yes, there is a lot of good youth around there.
Now that I'm one of the old timers at my "home" railroad museum I try to spend extra time encouraging new and especially younger members there, usually adding "I started getting into rail preservation back in the 1960s when I was your age."